Dorr Rebellion Project

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This project makes available a sampling of the correspondence of Thomas Wilson Dorr (1805-1854). Dorr is most famous for leading the 1842 Dorr Rebellion, an attempt to expand voting rights in Rhode Island. A selection of the encoded correspondence is available on this site, for further correspondence and other primary source material on the Dorr Rebellion visit: http://library.providence.edu/dps/projects/dorr/index.php